We might not currently have any technology that would make a space elevator viable on Earth. But that doesn't mean they ...

In the early hours of May 29, China successfully launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan province, an ...

Comet 311P is a small celestial anomaly orbiting in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, possessing both the material composition ... The long distance, multi-target detection, and long mission ...

An asteroid goes missing, and it’s not what you’d expect… What secrets are drifting in the belt? 20 Historical Figures Whose True Evil Was Only Discovered After Their Death Deflated renter ...

The trouble is, researchers had to estimate the masses for most of the objects within a key group: the 343 largest bodies in the asteroid belt. “It’s amazing to me that other asteroids have ...

Tianwen-2 is set to reach the asteroid in July 2026 and shoot a capsule packed with rocks back to Earth for a landing in November 2027. Then it will fly to its second target, main-belt comet 311P ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University suggest Vesta is a fragment of a larger, extinct planet shattered in a ...

While this distance is no cause for concern, 1998 OR2 will continue on its 3.7-year orbit around the sun, venturing into the asteroid belt beyond Mars and circling back inside Earth’s orbit with ...

“Space is incredibly, profoundly empty,” Fuls said. “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in fact ...

Asteroid 2016HO3 is located between 18 million km and 46 million km from Earth, while the main-belt comet 311P lies approximately 150 million km to 500 million km away. The immense distance from Earth ...